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Cover of Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005

In recent years, scholarship on translation has moved well beyond the technicalities of converting one language into another and beyond conventional translation theory. With new technologies blurring distinctions between "the original" and its reproductions, and with globalization redefining...
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by Robert Graves
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014

Lucius Apuleius, a young man of good parentage, takes a trip to Thessaly. Along the way, amidst a series of bizarre adventures, he inadvertently offends a priestess of the White Goddess, who promptly turns him into an ass. How Lucius responds to his new misfortune, and ultimately finds a way to become...
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Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue

An Experimental Translation by Chantal Wright

by Yoko Tawada, Chantal Wright
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013

Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue: An Experimental Translation by Chantal Wright is a hybrid text, innovatively combining literary criticism, experimental translation, and scholarly commentary. This work centres on a German-language prose text by Yoko Tawada entitled ‘Portrait of a Tongue’ [‘Porträt...
Cover of All Is Flesh
by Yannick Renaud
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013

All Is Flesh collects in one volume Hugh Hazelton’s English translations of Yannick Renaud’s brilliant first two books of poems, Taxidermy and The Disappearance of Ideas, first published by Éditions Les Herbes rouges in Montreal. Taxidermy is a discourse on time consisting of prose poems...
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The Naughty Little Book of Gaelic

All the Scottish Gaelic You Need to Curse, Swear, Drink, Smoke and Fool Around

by Michael Newton, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014

Scottish Highlanders, and their descendants all over the world, are no better and no worse than any other people where “sinful” behaviour is concerned. Standards of morality and social conventions changed dramatically during the 19th century – and most of the people engaged in recording and...
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They Divided the Sky

A Novel by Christa Wolf

by Christa Wolf
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2013

First published in 1963, in East Germany, They Divided the Sky tells the story of a young couple, living in the new, socialist, East Germany, whose relationship is tested to the extreme not only because of the political positions they gradually develop but, very concretely, by the Berlin Wall, which...
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The Hermes Complex

Philosophical Reflections on Translation

by Charles Le Blanc
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2012

When Hermes handed over to Apollo his finest invention, the lyre, in exchange for promotion to the status of messenger of the gods, he relinquished the creativity that gave life to his words. The trade-off proved frustrating: Hermes chafed under the obligation to deliver the ideas and words...
Cover of Shakespeare, Italy, and Transnational Exchange
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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017

This interdisciplinary, transhistorical collection brings together international scholars from English literature, Italian studies, performance history, and comparative literature to offer new perspectives on the vibrant engagements between Shakespeare and Italian theatre, literary culture, and politics,...
Cover of Geochemistry of Epigenesis
by A. I. Perel man
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

In its classical sense "epigenesis" refers to all geological processes originating at or near the surface of the earth. It thus embraces all those phenomena which we associate with the land­ scape; Perel'man has already written extensively on this subject. The landscape, in the physical...
Cover of Exploring Translation Theories
by Anthony Pym
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017

Exploring Translation Theories presents a comprehensive analysis of the core contemporary paradigms of Western translation theory. The book covers theories of equivalence, purpose, description, uncertainty, localization, and cultural translation. This second edition adds coverage on new translation...
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Bible Translation Basics

Communicating Scripture in a Relevant Way

by Harriet Hill, Ernst-August Gutt, Christoph Unger
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012

Over the past thirty years, scholars have made significant advances in understanding how human communication functions. They have moved from looking for meaning in texts alone to seeing texts as providing clues that lead hearers to discover the speaker’s intended meaning. Hearers use other inputs...
Cover of Translator Self-Training--Spanish Legal
by Morry Sofer
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011

Includes reference material on translation techniques, translation equipment, dictionaries, reference literature, and terminology management.
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Eco-Translation

Translation and Ecology in the Age of the Anthropocene

by Michael Cronin
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017

Ecology has become a central question governing the survival and sustainability of human societies, cultures and languages. In this timely study, Michael Cronin investigates how the perspective of the Anthropocene, or the effect of humans on the global environment, has profound implications for the...
Cover of The Interpreter's Guide to the Vehicular Accident Lawsuit
by Josef F. BUENKER
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2004

This book familiarizes the judicial interpreter with the vehicular accident lawsuit in the USA. The entire process which an interpreter may encounter is explained from the time of the accident through the final trial.  The book provides a comprehensive presentation of the participants, terminology, procedures, documents and regulations to this prevalent area of law.
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